Theophylact was the youngest son of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos by Theodora.

Apart from the bastard eunuch Basil Lekapenos, who was appointed parakoimomenos, Theophylact was the only son of Romanos I to retain his high office after the family's fall from power in 945.

Romanos Lekapenos was the son of an Armenian peasant with the remarkable name of Theophylact the Unbearable.

Theophylact or Theophylactus ( Latin: Theophylactus, Greek Theophylaktos, " guarded by God ") may refer to:

He was of the noble family of the counts of Tusculum ( son of Gregory, Count of Tusculum, and brother of future Pope John XIX ), descended from Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, just as was his predecessor Pope Benedict VI ( 973 – 974 ).

By the time the Antipope Christopher ( 903 – 904 ) seized the chair of Saint Peter by force, circumstances had changed at Rome, with the rise of the magister militum Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, who had been stationed at Rome by the retreating emperor Louis the Blind in 902.

He was either murdered by Christopher, who was in turn executed by Pope Sergius III ( 904 – 911 ) in 904, or, more likely, was ordered to be strangled during the beginning of Sergius ’ pontificate, either on the orders of Sergius himself, or by the direction of the sacri palatii vestararius, Theophylact, Count of Tusculum.

Theophylact of Ohrid ( Greek Θεοφύλακτος, surname ¨ Ηφαιστος Bulgarian Теофилакт Охридски, Serbian Теофилакт Охридски, also known as Theophylact of Bulgaria ) ( 1055 – 1107 ) was a Greek archbishop of Ohrid and commentator on the Bible.

Theophylact I ( before 864 – 924 / 925 ) was a medieval Count of Tusculum who was the effective ruler of Rome from around 905 through to his death in 924.

Although the first appointed archbishop ( John of Debar ) was a Bulgarian, his successors, as well as the whole higher clergy, were invariably Greeks, the most famous of them being Saint Theophylact of Bulgaria ( 1078 – 1107 ).

Perhaps ironically, Theophylact died after falling from a horse in 956.

Sergius was the son of Benedictus, and traditionally was believed descended from a noble Roman family, although it has been speculated that he was in fact related to the family of Theophylact, Count of Tusculum.

All real power now devolved onto Theophylact, and Sergius essentially became his puppet, and perhaps the first clear sign of this shift in power was the fate of Sergius ’ two predecessors, Pope Leo V and the Antipope Christopher.

That both men were murdered during Sergius ’ pontificate appears probable, although other accounts state that Christopher at least was allowed to retire to a monastery ; however, given where the real power lay, it seems more likely that either Theophylact gave the orders directly, or that he directed Sergius to give the orders.

The question of whether Theophylact and Theodora needed to tie Sergius to them by such means, particularly when Sergius was already deeply indebted to them for his elevation to the papacy, as well as wasting Marozia in a relationship when, as the daughter of an important house, she would have been a valuable tool to link via marriage to another noble house, is open to debate.

After Stephen's death on 26 April 757, Paul prevailed over a faction that wanted to place the Archdeacon Theophylact on the Holy See and was chosen his brother's successor by the majority that wished a continuation of the late pope's policy.

Romanos I planned to make his son Patriarch as soon as Nicholas Mystikos died in 925, but two minor patriarchates and a two-year vacancy passed before Theophylact was considered old enough to discharge his duties as patriarch ( still he was still only sixteen years old ).

Theophylact was the third patriarch of Constantinople to be the son of an emperor and the only one to have become patriarch during the reign of his father.

Theophylact introduced theatrical elements to the Byzantine liturgy, something which was not universally supported by the conservative clergy around him.

Michael was the son of the patrician Theophylact Rhangabe, the admiral of the Aegean fleet.

She was the daughter of the Roman consul Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, and of Theodora, the real power in Rome, whom Liutprand of Cremona characterized as a " shameless whore ... exercised power on the Roman citizenry like a man.

The sources do not agree on how Hormizd was killed: Theophylact Simocatta states ( iv. 7 ) that Khosrau killed him a few days after his father was blinded ; the Armenian historian Sebeos ( History, Ch. 10. 75 ) states that Hormizd's own courtiers killed him.

* Theophylact succeeds Stephen IV as Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

* Theodore succeeds Theophylact as Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

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Luxury and social tensions may have contributed to the spread of the Bogomil heresy, which Petar duly undertook to combat, soliciting the advice of famous hermits and even his uncle-in-law, the Patriarch of Constantinople Theophylact.

* Theophylact of Antioch, Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch ( 744-751 )

The Greek writer Theophylact Simocatta refers to a migration of Zabender from Asia to Europe in about 598 ; in addition, an Armenian book on geography attributed to Moses of Chorene mentions a town " M-s-n-d-r " in the land of Huns located to the north of Derbent.

Information about origins is derived primarily from the works of the Byzantine historians Menander Protector and Theophylact Simocatta.

The Gospel of Mark refers to their ceremonial ablutions: " For the Pharisees … wash their hands ' oft '" or, more accurately, " with the fist " ( R. V., " diligently "); or, as Theophylact of Bulgaria explains it, " up to the elbow ," referring to the actual word used in the Greek New Testament, πυγμή pygmē, which refers to the arm from the elbow to the tips of the fingers.

Theophylact, as a soldier, had rescued the Emperor Basil I from the enemy in battle at Tephrike and had been rewarded by a place in the Imperial Guard.

* Theophylact, co-emperor from 812 to 813.

Therefore the accounts given of him by the Byzantine authors, Theophylact Simocatta ( iii. 16 ff ), Menander Protector and John of Ephesus ( vi. 22 ), who give a full account of these negotiations, are far from favourable.

Although this was again interpreted by Liutprand as Theodora personally intervening to have her lover made Pope, it is far more likely that John ’ s close working relationship with Theophylact, and his opposition to the ordinations of Pope Formosus, were the real reasons for his being transferred from Ravenna to Rome.

Vertkov states that the first mentions of the Gusli date back to 591AD to a treatise by the Greek historian Theophylact Simocatta which describes the instrument being used by Slavs from the area of the later Kievan Rus ' kingdom.

" Some do seem to bear family relationships, falling into two main branches, the Ottaviani and the Stefaniani, and their policies were consistent enough, especially as regards confronting the rival gang of aristocratic thugs, the Tusculani, who were descended from the influential curial official Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, ruler of Rome at the beginning of the 10th century.

Shortly after his promotion, Theophylact marched from Sicily to Rome, where John VI had recently been made Pope.

After the death of Pope Lando in 914, a faction of the Roman nobility, headed by Theophylact of Tusculum, summoned John to Rome to assume the vacant papal chair.

In this capacity, Theophylact was able to dominate the papal electoral process, with all popes until his death in 925 chosen after he had hand-picked them.

An account of the war by the Byzantine Theophylact Simocatta sentimentalises the reasons behind the conflict, claiming it originated with Alboin's vain courting and subsequent kidnapping of Cunimund's daughter Rosamund, that Alboin proceeded then to marry.

* John Komnenos, Alexios ’ nephew, governor of Dyrrachium, accused of a conspiracy by Theophylact of Bulgaria.

Practically nothing is recorded of Pope Anastasius III, his pontificate falling in the period when Rome and the Papacy were in the power of Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, and his wife Theodora, who approved Anastasius III's candidacy.

Sergius accepted, and with the armed backing of Adalbert II, he entered Rome, by which stage Christopher had already been cast into prison by Theophylact.

Sergius III owed his rise to the power of his new patron Theophylact, and quickly rewarded him with the position of sacri palatii vestararius, the principal official at the top of papal patronage in control of the disbursements, and thus of patronage.

With regards to the imperial question, although both Sergius and Theophylact did not support the continued nominal rule of Emperor Louis, they were somewhat unwilling to grant the imperial title to the only other contender, Berengar I of Italy.

Sergius ’ ties with the family of Theophylact were made even closer, at least according to rumour, by Sergius ’ supposed affair with Theophylact ’ s daughter, Marozia.

James S. Packer described him as malignant and ferocious, slaughtering his enemies with a private army, while Walter Ullmann described Sergius as a typical representative of the House of Theophylact, concerned with power and sexual liaisons.